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Monday, 16 September 2013

Even more people want to start a social enterprise

While searching the
Internet I have found an interesting blog entry about the necessity of
preferential treatment of social
enterprises. I think this kind of treatment is a must if the social impact
is large-scale. Both the hunger of
millions in developing countries and the different forms of disabilities in the
developed countries are necessary to be solved.

In my opinion
subsidies supporting social entrepreneurs are necessary as well, but I do not
think of financial help at first. Social enterprises should be provided
with knowledge or know-how first of all. You have to teach the poor the
livestock breeding instead of giving them few chickens.

However, I agree with
supporting social enterprises with subsidies, but just in case if this
enterprise is promising: it has appropriate social impact or it is a promising
start-up. The writer of the blog entry
would maybe disagree:

You can find another
interesting topic in theguardian online. The headline is really eye-catching:
lots of people want to start a social enterprise. It shows exact statistics that
tell us that 7% of the whole population of UK wants to start a social
enterprise. Among young people the numbers double up: 15 percent of the young
people plan to start a social enterprise.

Social enterprise
sounds popular, doesn’t it? If so, I got lucky, I will have stuff to write
about… J

Unfortunately, intention
and planning do not meet improvement and fulfilment. Only 1% starts a social
enterprise, the other people remain opportunity seeker and do not become an
entrepreneur.

I am interesting
which factors holds them back. Are they financial or technical? Are they
motivational or inspirational? What do they lack of who give up before
starting?